James Aimonetti is a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer and Erlang Expert at 2600Hz, where he is helping design and build an open source, cloud telecom platform from the ground up. He has been involved in projects ranging from a collaborative fitness website to a text messaging platform used for sending inspirational text messages from authors like Steven Covey, Oprah, and the Dalai Lama, and class management software for Northwestern University.

James has worked in Erlang since 2007 and enjoys coding, advocating for, and teaching Erlang to the unwashed masses. Though currently living in San Francisco, James roots for the Portland Trailblazers, enjoys basketball, surfing, surfing, yoga, and hearing the groans of his coworkers when he puts country music on the office sound system.

As Erlang's popularity grows, it keeps breaking into new niches and adopted companies not previously associated with the language. In this track we get to listen to the experiences of users better known for their association with other technologies rather than Erlang, looking at architectures and benefits of the language.